Soft corals live off of their zozanthellea algae that lives in side them through photosynthesis as do all corals. The zozanthellea however feeds of of micro plankton in your water. So depending on the mouth size of your coral depends on what you feed them. Take example of softies and zoas will more than likely eat phyto feast made by reef nutrition and sps will eat oyster feast by the same company.

Silversides are small fish 4-6" fish that can be fed to carnivorous fish and nems as a food source instead of live foods

I was just going from a general stand point. I don't know many newbie reefers that are into NPS corals and the constant feedings that have to be done to keep them, besides Georgians they seem to do good without constant feeding.

I was just going from a general stand point. I don't know many newbie reefers that are into NPS corals and the constant feedings that have to be done to keep them, besides Georgians they seem to do good without constant feeding.

I agree, just didn't want him to think every coral is photosynthetic and then get a NPS and have it die. That's all.